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What makes fangs so important? There was no real "tradition" of fangs. In fact, not in the original Gothic Novels were vampires describing with fangs, they used "sinking teeth into" with bloody mouths as a sort of seducitve pharse, but never really fangs as I recall. And again, in cinema, all the original vampire films: Nosferatu, Dracula (1931), etc. there were no fangs. Fangs have just become an added fun and pleasure for the vampiric look, singeling them out from other supernatural beings. The first vampire film without fangs was the classic "Draucla" Hammer film in which Christopher Lee's flamming mouth was a set full of fangs. Afterwords this became a trademark. I think a vampire should be judged on the charecter. Here, crappy vampire depictions portray vampires that:
-Don't, in anyway, refer to their sexuality or the philopshy of eroticism
-Have no sense of poetic justice (acts more like a regular person or closted pedophile than a vampire)
-Are half-robots.
-Are treated entirely based on legend (not talking about the victorian literaute, but the new wave of vampire stories)
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